Folding bed and wardrobe.



N0. 702,838. Patented .lune I7, |902.-

C. J. WEISS.

I-'DLDII'IG-BED AND WARDBBE.

(Application led Feb. 25, 1902.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.'

CHARLES J. WEISS, OF ALEXANDRIA, INDIANA.

FOLDING BED AND WARDROBE.

SPECIFICATION forming' pari; Of Letters Patent N0. 702,838, dated Tuner 17, 1902.

Application filed February 25, 1902. Serial Nol 95,509. (No model.)

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Beit known that I, CHARLES J. WEISS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Alexandria, in the county of Madison and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Folding Bed and Wardrobe,l of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to combine a bed and a wardrobe in one structure in such manner that the spring-mattress of the bed is, irrespective of the position of the parts, at all times stretched; and with these and minor objects my invention consists of the parts and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully pointed out.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of al combined bed and Wardrobe embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal vertical section of the same, parts being in extended position. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view of the slide and locking mechanism on the line c a, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail view in elevation of one of the keepers for the sliding section.

1 represents a wardrobe having any desired number of compartments.

2 represents rearwardly extending sides forming an extension of the sides of the wardrobe.

3 is the top'of the wardrobe, which extends back the same distance as the sides 2.

The base 4 of the wardrobe-section is hollow, the sides of which are each provided with a slot 5, around three sides of which is secured a facing member 6, the legs 7 of the facing member projecting over the groove, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, While the closed end of said member extends across said groove, thereby substantially closing one end of the groove, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. Vithin the base-section is a suitable latch 8, pivoted, as shown, upon which the Spring 9 exerts its pressure. This latch is operated by means of the handle or knob 10, which is connected to the latch oy-means of the cord 11, said cord being passed through an eye or staple 12. (See Fig. 3.)

The bed-section comprises a headboard 13, having the upper side structure 14 and the side pieces 15, Said side pieces 15 being connected together at their outer ends by means -of the timber 16. The side pieces 15 are of slightly less width than the groove 5, in which they slide, while the connecting-timber is of such width that it slides in the space between the' legs of the facing member 6.

17 is a stud depending from the member 16 and adapted to engage or be engaged by the hook 8, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3.

418 is a roller secured between the side pieces 15, the 'ends of said roller being journaled in said side pieces, as shown in Fig. 3.

19 is a roller journaled in the head-section of the bed on a plane above the roller 18.

2O is a spring-mattress, one end of which is secured to the wardrobe-section by means of the plate 21 and screw 22, the other end being passed around the roller 19 in the headsection, thence around the roller 18, the other end being secured to the wardrobe-section at 23.

The parts being assembled and in the position shown in Fig. 1, the wardrobe-section is pulled out to the position shown in Fig. 2, whereupon the hook 8 will engage the stud 17, thereby locking the parts in the extended position. In order to close the parts together, it is necessary to pull open the knob 10, and thus through the cord 11 disengage the hook 8 from the stud 17, whereupon the parts are free to slide upon each other to closed position.

It will readily be seen that by reason of the roller 18 I am enabled to keep the springmattress at all times stretched, and ythereby obviate all angular bends with the resultant break of the strands composing the mattress, such as has been experienced in the usual style of folding bed.

I claim- 1. In a folding bed, the combination with the two movable sections and a exible mattress secured at both ends to one section,'of

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two sliding Sections and a iexible mattress ends of said head-Section and a roller jouriixed at its ends to one of said sections, of naled to the head-Section, of a flexible matmovable means secured to the other section tress secured at both ends to the foot-section, to take up the slack in the mattress When the the body portion of the mattress traveling sections are closed together. l over said rollers whereby it is held taut.

4:. In a bed, of the character described, the The foregoing specification signed this 20th combination with amovable foot-section comday of February, 1902. prising a Wardrobe, a slot formed in the base i of said section, a movable head-section hav- CHARLES J' VEISS' ing side pieces rigidly attached thereto and adapted to slide in the slot of the otherseetion, a roller journaled between the outer l In presence of- EDNA B. EDWARDS, JAMES H. EDWARDS. 

